The newly-named Amazon Prime Massive Offers Day is formally underway, and proper now, Garmin’s top-tier smartwatch, the Fenix 7X Photo voltaic might be purchased at a best-ever worth of £539.99.
With a saving of round £200 (extra on the specifics of this beneath), it is by far and away the most cost effective I – or any of my colleagues – have seen it anyplace on-line. Should you do not belief our collective reminiscences, I do not blame you, however you possibly can belief the info as a result of in line with price-checker Camelcamelcamel (I’ve no concept why they referred to as it that nevertheless it’s a fantastic instrument for checking historic Amazon costs), it is £50 cheaper than it is ever been bought at Amazon earlier than.
The Fenix 7 (in all its three measurement guises) is a genuinely unbelievable piece of equipment, and sits on the high of our information to the most effective biking watches for that very purpose. In fact, it is not only for biking although, removed from it. It is a a real 24-7 health tracker that can observe dozens (nay, a whole lot) of various sports activities. You possibly can even create your personal, as I’ve carried out for bikejoring with my canines!
It has all of the bells and whistles in Garmin’s arsenal, inlcuding Garmin Pay, Spotify integration with storage, the total suite of navigational options resembling multiband GPS, barometric altimeters and extra. There’s additionally the optical coronary heart price sensor and the related well being and health metrics resembling Vo2 Max and Pulse Price, and so on.
After which we get to the photo voltaic charging, which does have its downsides. I’ve hung out utilizing each the Epix and the Fenix 7 Photo voltaic, and located the photo voltaic panels provide round an additional 3-4 days of battery life (Epix lasted round 7-10 days on common, Fenix lasted roughly 10-14 in combined use). However the show on the non-solar Epix had a lot better distinction. Should you do not thoughts charging and also you get an identical worth, bear that in thoughts.
I additionally need to present some context across the worth, for readability. Amazon has the retail worth set at £779.99, which suggests a saving of £240. Nonetheless, the identical watch at Garmin retails for £739.99 (right here). The worth of £539.99 continues to be the most effective we have ever seen, there is not any getting round that, however the low cost is not fairly the 30% being promoted.
Additionally, we’re buying in a particular area of interest right here. Clearly in case you’re not after a full-function smartwatch at this worth, then spending over half a grand on a smartwatch most likely is not… good. However in case you’re after a brand new smartwatch and wish all that Garmin has to supply, other than the brand new AMOLED display and torch function that got here on the Fenix 7 Professional that launched this yr, then this deal might be not going to be crushed all weekend.
Additionally, apologies to anybody studying this from outdoors the UK. So far as we will discover, there is not any such comparable deal on the Fenix 7 past the British shores on the time of writing. We’ll completely maintain our eyes peeled, however for now, this is a reside worth tracker for all the assorted Fenix 7 and Fenix 7 Professional fashions.
